GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| skittish | lively or frisky in action : capricious |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| premeditate | to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |